Shaw is a crude half-elf from a marsh tribe. He is also necromancer. What do you call a redneck who is also a necromancer? A redneckromancer!
He’s actually a pretty nice and happy guy, but he’s also dying from the inside out due to a bizarre curse.
That thing on his shoulder is a Bone Spirit, a minor spirit inhabiting random bones.
Rama is a sikh helmsman and a marksman in the Spanish privateer fleet in the 18th century. So, yeah, he’s far away from home
The setting is the Pirates Of The Spanish Main, in Savage Worlds.